Arabic handwriting synthesis system and method

Abstract

Systems and associated methodology are presented for Arabic handwriting synthesis including accessing character shape images of an alphabet, determining a connection point location between two or more character shapes based on a calculated right edge position and a calculated left edge position of the character shape images, extracting character features that describe language attributes and width attributes of characters of the character shape images, the language attributes including character Kashida attributes, and generating images of cursive text based on the character Kashida attribues and the width attribues.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The present application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. §120 from prior Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62 / 156,690, filed on May 4, 2015, the entire contents of which are herein incorporated by reference.BACKGROUND[0002]The “background” description provided herein is for the purpose of generally presenting the context of the disclosure. Work of the presently named inventors, to the extent it is described in this background section, as well as aspects of the description which may not otherwise qualify as prior art at the time of filing, are neither expressly nor impliedly admitted as prior art against the present disclosure.[0003]Handwriting recognition and synthesis are challenging problems, especially for the Arabic script. However, synthesis, or the automatic generation of handwriting, has recently gained interest because of its various applications that include training recognition systems and f...

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Non-blind PAWs-to-character segmentation result in comparable over-segmentation and under-segmentation error rates.

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